Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1696.saxum on page 1696
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saxum rock
saxum is a Latin Noun that primarily means rock.
Definitions for saxum
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
rock, stone
English derivatives:
saxatile saxifrage saxicolous
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A detached or isolated mass of stone, a rock, boulder. (b) (used as a missile). (c) (in references to the execution of criminals, etc., by throwing them from a rock; spec., from the Tarpeian Rock at Rome). (d) (applied disparagingly to a rocky island). (e) (spec.) a rock on the Aventine Hill at Rome from which Remus was said to have taken the auguries. (f) (as a type of dullness or stupidity; also, of heartlessness). (g) (prov., w. ref. to the stone of Sisyphus).
- 2
Stone or rock as a material. (b) stone of a specified kind; ~um rubrum, red tufa (see RVBER); ~um Magnesium, a magnet, lodestone (see MAGNESIVS). (c) a detergent clay, perh. bentonite.
- 3
Stone, or a piece of stone, shaped or adapted for a specific purpose: (a) (for building). (b) (for grinding corn). (c) (for sharpening blades). (d) (as a cutting implement, in quot. w. silex in appos.); (prov.) inter sacrum ~umque, in a tight corner; see SACRVM. (e) (as a boundary-stone). (f) (as a tombstone; also, applied to a sarcophagus).
Sentences with saxum
Latin to English
Adulescens, tam etsi properas te hoc saxum rogat ut sese aspicias, deinde quod scriptum est legas. Hic sunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sita Ossa. Hoc volebam nescius ne esses. Vale. (Epigramma)Compare Young man, though you hurry past, this stone would have you look at it and read what is written here. Here lie the bones of the poet Marcus Pacuvius. I would not have you wholly ignorant of him. Farewell. [Epitaph on himself]
Inde, per praeruptus eoque neglectus hostis custodia saxum, in Capitolium evado.Compare From thence, he climbs up the Capitol by a rock, precipitous and therefore neglected by the enemy's sentinels.
Nihil enim hic in locus, nisi saxum et mons, cogito.Compare For I used to think that there was nothing in these places except rocks and mountains.
Horatia sepulchrum, qui locus corruo ictus, construo saxum quadratus.Compare The tomb of Horatia was built of squared stone, on the spot where she had fallen when struck.
Declension table for saxum
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | saxum | saxa |
| Gen. | saxī | saxōrum |
| Dat. | saxō | saxīs |
| Acc. | saxum | saxa |
| Abl. | saxō | saxīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 286.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1696.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "saxum, saxī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/saxum-saxi.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 286.saxum, saxī on page 286
